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Founded in 1969 from the merging of several national publications, the European journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, including Letters and Supplements, has grown from 2800 pages in 1969 to 18,000 pages in 1999. It is now the second in volume of the four major general journals in astronomy, the first one being the American Astrophysical Journal and the two other ones being the American Astronomical Journal and the British Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. In total, about 58,000 pages were published by these four journals in 1999, a growth by a factor 4.3 in the last 30 years, for a present community of about 10,000 scientists worldwide.
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Lequeux, J. (2000). To be Editor in Chief of a Primary Scientific Journal. In: Heck, A. (eds) Information Handling in Astronomy. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 250. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4345-5_11
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